Editor’s note: This piece contains spoilers and discusses events that take place in “She Kills Monsters.” As people gathered in the theater, fog rolled over the stage, a booming voice cascaded over the audience. The play opened to thunderous applause. This past weekend, The School of Theatre of Dance held its final showings for “She.
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Raeanna Tremethick and Emma Carmona have moved on to the Poetry Out Loud virtual state competition.
The contest showcases the talents of high school performance poets across the nation. The students present poems from established poets.
Tremethick won first place. One of her performances included “A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky” by Lewis Carroll.
Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die:
Autumn frosts have slain July.
Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
She also presented a poem by Margarita Engle.
Carmona came in second place. She performed “England in 1819” by Percy Bysshe Shelley and “Time does not bring relief; you all have lied” by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
RAAC announces Poetry Out Loud winners
Rockford Register Star
ROCKFORD The Rockford Area Arts Council recently announced the winners of its Poetry Out Loud regional competition.
Representing Jefferson High School, Raeanna Tremethick took first place and Emma Carmona took second place. The first and second place winners of this competition advance and submit videos to the virtual Illinois state competition. Winners will be announced March 8.
The state champions will advance to the national semi-finals to be held May 2. The finals will be held May 27, where $50,000 in awards and school stipends will be distributed.
The competition, presented by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation in partnership with the Illinois Arts Council Agency, is part of a national program that encourages high school students to learn about great poetry through memorization, performance and competition.